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Mac and cheese with Italian sausage, goes to Srivalli of "Cooking for 4 all seasons", who is guest hosting "Monthly Mingle" this month with "Kids lunches" as a theme and Meeta started this MM event. Thanks to all hosts, enjoy! :)Macaroni and cheese with Italian sausage casserole, also goes to Aquadaze of "Served with love", who is guest hosting this month's "Presto Pasta Nights #106", an event started by Ruth of "Once upon a feast".Japanese Rice mould/mold:Any kind of "mould" in India is called "Mold" here in USA, just like "colour" and "color" etc, just a little clarification about the spelling! :D

This beautiful Japanese rice mold is specially designed to pour and serve the sauce in the center. Spoon the cooked rice into the mold, press gently to fill the gaps, place on a serving plate and tap gently to release the rice. Pour any sauce into the middle of the rice and serve. I had made Egg butter masala, placed an egg in the center of the mold.

Another "clear" look:

Sony Cyber-Shot: 8.1pxl, Macro mode.

*************************************************************************************************************************************Chicken and Capsicum Pasta recipe is the choice of Soma's who is hosting "Hay Hay, it's Donna's day" from Donna Hay's blog. Although I followed the original recipe mostly, I had to make this with Artichoke Hearts with lots of fresh herbs from my herb pots since I made Butter chicken for kids few days ago and ran out of Chicken! So here is my chicken less version;

***************************************************************************************************************************Everybody's favorite food, Macaroni and cheese with sweet Italian Sausage:My kids always like to have Mac and cheese whenever my husband doesn't come home for dinner and I don't feel like cooking! Usually kids like to add add chopped up Hot dogs for a quick version, I had some Italian sausage this time to add to this Nac and Cheese. You can make plain Mac and cheese without adding anything or may be some veggies to make it healthier. I made a Casserole of Mac and cheese with crunchy Panko breadcrumbs on top!

Macaroni and Cheese with Italian sausage Casserole:

Here is how to make Mac and cheese Casserole:

Preheat the oven at 350F to bake this casserole for 30-40mins.

Pasta:Boil water, add 2 cups of dry Elbow Macaroni with some salt and 1 tsp oil until almost done, drain and pour it in a casserole dish.Sausage:Cut up Hot dog if you using those or take out and crumble Italian sausage links out of it's skin and saute the sausage for a while in a pan until light brown and set aside to add this to the sauce later)For cheese sauce:1. Heat a non-stick pan, add 2tbsp olive oil or butter, add 2 tbsp plain flour, stir fry until slightly golden or until flour is cooked. Now pour in about 2 1/4 cups of milk, gently heat.2. When sauce is hot, grate a Nutmeg to add few pinches, sausage and take the sauce off of the heat. Add 1 tsp yellow ground Mustard, 1 cup of grated Cheddar cheese and stir gently and quickly until cheese dissolves. Add some pepper and salt if needed. I added 1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce, 1/2 tsp each of mixed spices and herbs.3. Pour this sauce over the Macaroni, sprinkle some Parmesan and 1/4 cup seasoned Panko (or Italian) breadcrumbs on top and bake for 30 to 40mins until sauce is thickish.Sauce thickens as the caserrole cools, so don't bake until Pasta and sauce is very dry. To get some color on the breadcrumbs, I broiled/grilled for 5 mins or just until crumbs get golden. DO NOT burn the crumbs!You can Microwave this dish too to make it faster, bread crumbs will be whitish but it's quite tasty to eat anyway.

Enjoy, see you next time! :)

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Asha

69 comments:

The Wooden rice mould is just amazing..Wish I could get that someday.Great click and love the idea of spiced egg in rice.I love Mac n cheese and so does my sis and we make this at least once in a week..Its looking very very yummy :)

So nice to be with you Asha today. It is always my great time being here. I can see your art-food, it is inspiring.My favorite today is this Japanese rice mold. Really great, healthy and beautiful. I try to avoid pasta. Only sometimes.

Ooh..that rice mo(u)ld is so lovely..looks almost like a mini-bundt cake tin;-).Love the way you've placed an egg right on top..;-).Pasta is looking delicious and so does the Casserole..waiting to see your version of Banana muffin;-)!!!

Divya, that mould is cute, great to serve thick gravies poured on it. We are still eating that Muffin, need to type in the recipe, will post at FH next week! :)

Haha!! True, if you have a head that small to fit in that thing and then a bonus dent in the skull too!Bee, you will be amazed what I can find in that cabin of mine, I wasn't looking for it but there it was. WOOD! Flashed in mind! ;D

The rice mould is new to me and I like the idea. Esp. since I know my son will find food interesting when served like this!! Great idea for click wood. I somehow don't like farfelle very much, probably because it can't hold the gravy as much as penne! My daughter would love that:)

sra, I used to do that too with Katoris before. Japanese make a very sticky rice, so I guess this works better for them. I have to really press our regular rice harder to shape but it's cuter with dent in the middle! :)

I've never seen such a rice mould before....I love italian sausage and with mac and cheese its outa the world.......wowwwwwww.yes you can send your kids over anytime,I love to cook for ppl who love chicken.

Asha,amzing click with that rice mould, never knew rice can be moulded with a unique wooden piece also ..nice one ..Its being ages I have tried making any Italian dishes and , I am just craving it now , both these are so delicious ...hugs and smiles

The rice mould looks v.v.nice,but how did u place the egg there,even though digged ;)yesterday for a egg kurma picture I was trying damn hard,before I could click,it was falling down :(and farfelle recipe is awesome..

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